Keywords: Victory Chapel
Item 22586
Advent Christian Church, Biddeford, 1955
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1955 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area
"The final attempt brought victory to the English. On the day that Captain Moulton and Captain Harmon led their troops once again to the scenic…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… come in the late summer when British troops, victorious over the 10th Militia Division of Massachusetts in a rout in nearby Hampden, traveled up…"
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII